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Erol Bulut's backroom staff as one Cardiff City coach likely to exit and the state of play with out-of-contract players

Erol Bulut will have three members of his coaching staff join him at Cardiff City with Dean Whitehead likely to depart for Watford, but a conversation is to be had with Sol Bamba over his future.

Bulut will bolster his team with three additions to the dugout, with Steve Morison, Mark Hudson, Graham Stack and Sabri Lamouchi all having left the club last season.

Whitehead's old boss, Valerien Ismael, has taken the reins at Watford and in all likelihood it appears the former midfielder will join him at Vicarage Road. But with regards to Bluebirds fan favourite Bamba, who returned with Lamouchi in January, nothing seems to be set in stone just yet.

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When asked which members of the backroom team Bulut will bring with him, he replied: "It will be an assistant, performance coach and a goalkeeper coach. But also in a few days, we will discuss with Mehmet (Dalman) about that."

While chairman Mehmet Dalman added: "We won't release the names yet, because they haven't signed their contracts and we don't want to breach their confidentiality. But it's three all together.

"Dean, I think it's well known he has been approached by another club. We respect his decision whether he wants to go there or stay here. From what I know he hasn't made up his mind - but I think he is more or less done in terms of going. And we don't want to stand in his way, he has been a good servant here. We want to say thank you to him.

"Sol, we knew him as a player and we've known him as a coach now for a little while. And that's a conversation once the manager gets his feet under the table. It's all very open."

Gavin Whyte, Connor Wickham, Joel Bagan, Mark Harris, Dillon Phillips, Eli King and Tom Sang all see their contracts expire at the end of the month. Cardiff's retained list had to be submitted a few weeks ago, but there are still talks to be had over some whose futures are still up in the air.

Whyte has already announced on social media that he would depart Cardiff, with Portsmouth understood to be keen on his signature.

When asked if decisions are concreate or whether Bulut would get a say in who stays and who goes out of the others left, Dalman said: "It's a little bit of both. Some have been very clear and some of them have publicly announced they are going.

"There are some where we said and they said, well, let's wait for the new manager and then we'll have a dialogue around that. He is here and we will have a dialogue."

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